The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.